Carbonator



A. A. PINDSTOFTE.

CARBONATOR.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I. 1919.

Patented Jan. 31, 1922.

To all whom t may concern nausea stares rarest 'cARBoNA'roR Be it known that ANDERS ANDnRsnN PIND- STOFTE, manuacturer of engines, c tizen of the Kingdom of Denmark, residing at No.

62Frederiksberg All, Frederiksberg near I Copenhagen, Denmark, has inventedjcen tain new and useful 'Improvements'in Carbonators, of which the following is a specification. l The present invention relates to an impregnating apparatus, wherein the absorption chamber and the chamber containing the regulator are not disposed on top of one another but side by side so that, after removal of the covers of the chambers, all internal parts of the absorption chamber, as well as the regulator and the like, may be removed, whereby it becomes an easy matter to clean the chambers and the parts removed. According to the invention the. absorption chamber and the chamber containing the regulator are disposed alongside of one another and, according to the invention, the two chambers are interconnected partly by an air-tube at top and partly by a channel at bottom, so that the liquid will stand at the same level in the two chambers. In the said channel, there is provided a twoarmed lever supporting, at one end, a rod.

actuating the supply-valve for the liquid and, at its other end, a rod supporting the regulator. The last mentioned rod is fitted withthreads for a nut or the like on the regulator, and thereby the result is attained that the regulator connected with the nut may be raised or lowered by rotation of the rod, whereby the level of the llquid 1n both vessels may be varied.

The drawing shows one manner of constructing the apparatus.

Fig. 1 shows a vertical sectlon of the apparatus and V Fig. 2 shows a horizontal section of the same.

The apparatus consists, is the construct on shown, of an absorption chamber 6, resting on feet a. The inlet to the absorption chamber is formed by a tube 0 fitted with a faucet by way of which the impregnating gas, for instance carbonic acid, is introduced into the chamber 6. At bottom in the apparatus, there is provided a tube d also fitted with a cock by way of which the impregnated liquid is discharged. The chamber 6 is closed, at top, by a cover f provlded with an air-discharge tube 9 fitted wlth a valve.

I Application filed' April 1,

. Specification of Letters Patent. P aftn tiid Ja i922.

Serial No. 236, 5 I v Y The'liquidupply tube a fitteclfwith aga w passes tlghtlythrough the centre of the. coverfand, within the chamber, itcarries a sliding regulating valve 11 or the like "actuated by .the rod j, whose lower end is connected. to one arm of the two-armed leverltaiwhich is fulcrumed in the channelf'k and has its other arm connected to the rod y,',supporting regulator According to the. invention,

'65 the regulator is loc'a-ted in a sep raa n m. her a closedby a cover 0;.- By way of the" tube O,-"'the'interiorof'the chambers com- 1 municates with the absorption chamber 6. The cover 01' is fitted with a stuffing'box g encircling'a rotatable rod 8 fitted, at top, with handle 0 and, at bottom, with a rather long sleeve 1" formed with a polygonal socket to loosely receive the correspondingly shaped upper end of the rod g so that the rod may slide freely up and down in the sleeve socket, *while the regula-.

tor is operating, and so that the rod y is V nevertheless bound to follow the rotationv of the handle. The rod 3 is fitted with threads for a nut 11. supporting the regula tor so that the latter, when the rod 1 is rotated by means of the handle 0 moves up and down in the chamber a, the regulator be- I ing prevented,,by means of a projection an engaging a longitudinal guide u fixed in the chamber a from following the rotary motion of the rod.

By this construction, the result is attained that the regulator a, as --well as the entire interior arrangement in the absorption chamber 6, may easily be removed, when the apparatus is to be cleaned. A further re- 7 sult is that there lator m may be adjusted on the rod y, whie the apparatus is in use and, thereby, the distance between the supply-valve and the surface ofthe liquid may be varied'so that any desired degree of pregnation may be attained- 'I claim as my invention I 1. carbonating apparatus, comprising, in

combination, a carbonating chamber and a ,7 regulator chamber disposed'side by side in therein, the carbonating chamber having in= 110 lets for the gas and the liquidto be treated; a bodily movable valve disposedin the upper portion of the carbonating chamber and directly associated with the liquid inlet to open and close the same; an operating rod disposed in the carbonating chamberand on the upper end of which the valve is mounted; a two-armed lever fulcrumed in the connecting channel and having one arm extending into the bottom of the carbonating chamber and pivotally vconnected to the lower end of said rod, and its other arm extending into the bottom of the regulator chamber; a regulator disposed in the float chamber; and a rod whereon the regulator is mounted disposed in said regulator chamher and pivotally connected at its lower end to the second-named arm of the lever, whereby-the movements of the regulator will be communicated to, and determine the position of the valve. 7

2. Carbonating appaiatus comprising, in combination, a carbonating' chamber and a regulator chamber disposed side by side in parallel vertical relation, both chambers being closed at opposite ends; an air tube connectlng said chambers at their upper ends;

a channel connecting the lower ends of said chambers to balance the levels of the liquid therein, the carbonating chamber having in lets for the gas and the liquid to be treated; a bodily movable valve disposed in the upper portion of the carbonating chamber and directly associated with the liquid inlet to open and close thesame; a regulator disposed in the float chamber; and. mechanical connections between the regulator and the valve for shifting the latter in accordance with the rising and falling movements of the regulator to control the supply of liquid to the carbonating chamber.

In testimony whereof he aflixes his signature mums AMBER-SEN muster-re. 

